In 17.8 years

Your Solar Return

The annual renewal of vitality, purpose, and direction.

Exact on August 13, 2044.

At age 108.0.

The cycle it opens will run about 12 months, from August 13, 2044 until the next Solar Return on August 13, 2045.

This Solar Return marks a pivot inward, a threshold where intimacy, inheritance, and the deeper currents of shared life become your primary teacher for the year ahead. The returning Sun settles into your eighth house, the realm of what binds you to others, what you hold in common, what transforms when two lives touch. This is not a year of external expansion. It is a year of depth.

The Rising of this return chart is Capricorn, which means you approach this cycle with a sober, structural eye. You will be less inclined to rush or romanticize. There is a steadiness in how you move through intimate terrain, whether that is partnership, inheritance, grief, sexuality, or the untangling of shared finances. You build carefully here.

Your return Moon lands in Aries in the fourth house, lighting your emotional weather with urgency and fire around home and family. There is restlessness in your roots, a need to defend what matters, perhaps a conversation or a boundary that has been waiting. Mars sits on your Midheaven, adding steel to your public presence even as the year’s real work happens behind closed doors.

The wider sky supports a profound reckoning. Uranus touches your natal Chiron; old wounds around belonging or identity may suddenly crack open, but toward healing. Neptune harmonizes with itself in you; your intuition about shared situations grows clearer, not cloudier. Pluto aligns with your nodal axis, the spine of your life’s direction. This is not coincidence. You are being invited to release what no longer serves the person you are becoming.

Meet this year by asking yourself what you truly want to share, and what you need to keep.

About The Solar Return

Your Solar Return marks the moment the transiting Sun returns to its exact natal position, your astrological birthday. Astrologers cast a fresh chart for that moment, relocated to wherever you'll spend the year ahead, to read the themes of the coming twelve months. Each Solar Return chart functions as a year-in-miniature forecast: a new rising sign, new planetary placements, new aspects, different territory than the year before. Once a year, every year.

The Return Chart, At A Glance

This is the chart of the return itself: the whole sky at the moment your Sun came back to the spot it held at birth. It describes the cycle that opens, not you as a person, and the birth chart underneath it does not change. That cycle runs from August 13, 2044 to August 13, 2045, about 12 months.

Cast for the return moment, relocated to El Paso.

Rising: Leo Sets the tone of the whole cycle: how this stretch of time tends to go about things. In any chart, Rising is your outward manner and first impression; the mask and lens through which you meet the world; Leo is confident, generous, creative; the 1st house is self, appearance, first impressions.
The returning Sun: 1st house self, appearance, first impressions The part of life this whole cycle works through, where Sun does its work for the next round. In any chart, Sun is core identity, will, vitality, the drive to express your essence; Leo is confident, generous, creative.
Moon: Aries · 9th house The emotional weather of the cycle: what it will tend to feel like from the inside. In any chart, Moon is emotional needs, instinctual responses, habits, your feeling of safety; Aries is adventurous, energetic, courageous; the 9th house is philosophy, higher education, travel.
Midheaven: Aries What the cycle pushes forward in public: the part other people will see. In any chart, Midheaven is your public reputation, career calling, and the face you show to authority and the world at large; Aries is adventurous, energetic, courageous; the 10th house is career, reputation, authority.
On the angles: Mars on the Imum Coeli The loudest placements in the chart: a body sitting on one of its four corners shapes the cycle more than its position alone would suggest.

How this sits with your own chart. A return chart is laid over a birth chart, never swapped for it. Your Sun is still in Leo, exactly where it was at birth, and that is what makes this a return at all. What is new is the frame around it: cast for this moment, that same Sun falls in the 1st house (self, appearance, first impressions), so that is the part of life this cycle asks about. Everything in your birth chart stays as it is; this chart only says what the cycle ahead does with it.

The Wider Sky Around It

The slow, life-shaping transits active at this return, the backdrop the reading reads against.

transiting Uranus sextile your natal Chiron · 0.4° Uranus shakes something loose, often without warning, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your Chiron. Chiron is the tender wound that becomes wisdom; where you heal others through your own vulnerability and sits in your 7th house, Partnerships, Marriage, One-on-One Relationships. Uranus, the one making the contact, is change, originality, awakening, where you seek freedom from limits.
transiting Neptune trine your natal Neptune · 0.7° Neptune blurs the edges and softens certainty, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, landing on your Neptune. Neptune is imagination, ideals, permeability, where reality blurs with vision and sits in your 9th house, Philosophy, Higher Education, Travel. Neptune, the one making the contact, is imagination, ideals, permeability, where reality blurs with vision.
transiting Pluto ℞ sextile your natal North Node · 0.9° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, offering an opening, if it gets taken, landing on your North Node. North Node is your evolutionary pull and the qualities you are stretching toward in this life and sits in your 1st house, Self, Appearance, First Impressions. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.
transiting Pluto ℞ trine your natal South Node · 0.9° Pluto strips a thing back to what it really is, in easy flow, so it helps more than it demands, landing on your South Node. South Node is your accumulated past patterns and talents that feel easy but can keep you stagnant and sits in your 7th house, Partnerships, Marriage, One-on-One Relationships. Pluto, the one making the contact, is power, purification, shadow work, deep cycles of ending and renewal.